Assessment of Psychosocial Functioning of Mothers of Children with Diabetes Mellitus Compared to Mothers of Healthy Children

Table 9

Correlations between sense of coherence and support in groups of mothers of diabetic children.

Mothers of healthy children	Sense of being understood		Resourcefulness		Sensibleness		General sense of coherence
	rho	p	rho	P	rho	P	rho	p
Perceived available general support	0.343	0.007	0.434	<0.001	0.377	0.003	0.418	0.001
Perceived available emotional support	0.334	0.009	0.396	0.002	0.299	0.020	0.377	0.003
Perceived available instrumental support	0.330	0.010	0.454	<0.001	0.424	0.001	0.438	<0. 001
Need for support	-0.116	0.378	-0.063	0.632	-0.092	0.485	-0.114	0.387
Support seeking	-0.100	0.448	0.007	0.959	-0.050	0.707	-0.053	0.689
Actually received general support	0.249	0.055	0.447	<0. 001	0.452	0.001	0.427	0.001
Actually received emotional support	0.195	0.136	0.397	0.002	0.385	0.002	0.364	0.004
Actually received institutional support	0.121	0.357	0.297	0.021	0.357	0.005	0.280	0.030
Actually received informative support	0.282	0.029	0.411	0.001	0.357	0.005	0.382	0.003
Satisfaction with actually received support	0.131	0.319	0.273	0.035	0.318	0.013	0.264	0.042
Protective buffering support	0.138	0.292	-0.016	0.903	-0.210	0.108	-0.018	0.894